In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

Quote by Karl Marx

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All that philosophers have done is interpret the world in different ways. It is our...

All that philosophers have done is interpret the world in different ways. It is our...

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if...

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if...

In business the man who engages in the most adventures is surest to come out...

In business the man who engages in the most adventures is surest to come out...

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social...

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social...

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a...

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a...

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write,...

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write,...

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image...

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image...

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand

Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one

Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one

Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex

Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex

The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the...

The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the...

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings...

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings...

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.